From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 14 15:02:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5ACB16A418 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (cl-162.ewr-01.us.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:4830:1200:a1::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FA8513C4EA for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m1EF21Gq018915; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:02:01 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: (from brooks@localhost) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.1/8.13.8/Submit) id m1EF21O3018914; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:02:01 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:02:01 -0600 From: Brooks Davis To: Volker Message-ID: <20080214150200.GB18534@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <47B3E21F.1010202@vwsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47B3E21F.1010202@vwsoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:02:01 -0600 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: licensing question APSL X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:02:03 -0000 --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:39:27AM +0100, Volker wrote: > While working through the PR backlog, I found two PRs filed containing > source code for two tools (decomment, relpath) under the Apple Public > Source License (APSL). >=20 > I think these tools aren't that bad but before pinging any committer > with that, I thought I might throw the question on the table: What > about importing code under the APSL license? Has there been any > consensus in the past about that license? >=20 > I'm not a lawyer but the license seems to be reasonable suited for the > BSD projects. >=20 > PRs in question: bin/67307 bin/67308 The quotes on the followup are essentially correct except that explicit approval is required by core to add new Non-BSD-Licensed code and that there would need to be a mechanism to not build them as part of buildworld to allow environments that do not want to deal with the APSL to avoid it similar to GPL or CDDL code. -- Brooks --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHtFe9XY6L6fI4GtQRAlVJAJ4sBR9SrbPruCc0+ouy1iYDRbSvfwCdG/3T TTpxvM/4HAsehAWroyPtSjw= =gyDi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ--